Musicians Speaking Freely Do you know who said: “I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like 'My character is just fine'"? You can find out the jazz musician behind this and other humorous quotations in Marshall Bowden's Quotable Jazz, published September 2002 by Sound And Vision Books.
Jazz is hot. Since last year's showing of Ken Burns' Jazz on public television, sales of jazz music have risen. Recordings by Diana Krall and Cassandra Wilson have broken through to popular radio station formats and a number of performers have been featured in high-profile magazines. When you get your morning coffee at Starbucks or the local gourmet caf
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